Nelly Muluka, IFRC, and Sammy Mahdi, Sudanese Red Crescent Society “We have lived in this area for many years with farmers practicing irrigation using water from the Nile river,” says Mustarifa Mohammed, a resident of Al Burgeg Locality in Northern State, Sudan. “To us, rain is alien and we can go on for years before receiving any.” So when heavy rains and flash floods started inundating their...

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